It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Institutions train men to be skilled

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

You might not believe it, but there are times when I feel the TV and radio shows demand more of me than those Sunday afternoon games.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.